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'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB XV. SLAIGHT AND JACOB NV. ANDROYATT, OF PRIN CES BAY, N. Y.

CLAMP FOR SETTING RIGGING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 102,605, dated May 3,1570.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that we, JACOB W. SLAIGHT and JACOB W. ANDROVATT, of PrincesBay, in the county of Richmondand State of New York, have invented a newand Improved.

Rope-Clamp for Setting Rigging; and we do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and eXact description thereof, which willenable others skilled in the art to make and use the saine, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthisspecification.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of our improved rope-clamp,showing it applied for setting a lanyard. Fig. 2 is aperspective view,on an enlarged scale, of the clamp.

Similar letters of reference indicate c0rrespending parts.

This invention has for its object to provide an instrument for clampingand holding ropes for hoisting different kinds of articles, or forstretching or applying such ropes to the sides of ships on, other placeswithout requiring knots to be tied or eyes formed in such ropes toenable their being applied to the tackleblock.

The invention consists in the combination of a notched Or toothed bar orplate, A, with a pivoted clamping-lever, B.

Thelever B is S -shaped,and is fitted through a slot of the bar A, beingpivoted by a pin, a., to the same. The lower end of the 1ever B isformed into a jaw, c, for clamping the rope. The rope to be fastened iswound around the teeth b b of the bar A, and is made tense thereby, andis then held between the jaw c and the plate A. When the device issuspended fromv a rope, d, which is fastened to the outer end of thelever B, and drawn through an opening, e, of the bar A, the clamp willbe powerfully applied to take a iirni hold of the rope at the lower end.

By means of this vinstrument the ropes will be preserved, as they arenot exposed to the twist and injury subsequent to the making of knots oreyes. Fig. l shows it applied to a lanyard while stretching the same. Itmay also be used on all other ropes on board ships,

and all kinds of elevating machinery.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure, by Let-ters Patent- A rope-clamp consisting of thetoothed 'ornotched bar A and clampinglever B, and arranged to operate as set forth.

JACOB W. SLAIGHT.

JACOB XV. ANDROVATT.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. MABEE, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

